When men make themselves into brutes, it is just to treat them as brutes.
When I’m conducting business, I mind it. It and only it. Not some piece of ass with a sugary voice, not my pride, my business.[to Chalky]
What’s it matter what I say?[Elias ‘Eli’ Thompson]You have a lot to lose.[Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson]Me? I don’t have anything. Sooner or later you wind up taking it all. Can’t help it.[Elias ‘Eli’ Thompson]
What’s it like, when you see it?[Joe Harper][about death] You tell yourself it’s quick. But you don’t know. You can’t know until it’s you. And then you’ll never tell anyone.[Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson]
What I’ve learned, the truth is surprisingly easy to obfuscate.
What do you want?[Lucky Luciano]A meeting so we can settle this bulls***.[Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson]I’ll meet you at your funeral. We can talk there.[Lucky Luciano]
What do you do for fun, Esther?[Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson]I run naked through the pages of the United States Criminal Code.[Esther Randolph]
What do you call an Irishman who doesn’t swear? A mute. What do you call an Irishman who doesn’t drink? A corpse. What do you call an Irishman from Atlantic City? It doesn’t matter where he’s from, you call him an Irishman![addressing the crowd]
Well, write the Vatican. See if they know where they are.[James ‘Jimmy’ Darmody: Ignacious, Sixtus, Leo… They’re all named after popes.]
Well, I can’t complain, but that doesn’t mean I won’t.[Walter Edge: How are you, Nuck?]
We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with.[Margaret Schroeder: There’s a kindness in you. I know it. How can you do what you do?]
Two years killing Jerries doesn’t exactly prepare you for a whole lot else.
